Alphamstone

Alphamstone
Alphamstone
	; St. Barnabas church, Alphamstone
	Alphamstone Location within Essex
Area	2.67 sq mi (6.9 km2)
OS grid reference	TL884358
Civil parish	Alphamstone;
District	Braintree;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BURES
Postcode district	CO8
Dialling code	01787
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Saffron Walden;
	List of places UK England Essex 51°59′20″N 0°44′34″E / 51.9890°N 0.7428°ECoordinates: 51°59′20″N 0°44′34″E / 51.9890°N 0.7428°E

Alphamstone is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located 3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km) south of Sudbury in Suffolk and is 20 mi (32 km) northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. The parish is part of the Stour Valley South parish cluster.^[1] The parish is 1,709 acres (2.67 sq mi; 692 ha) with a geology of fertile clay-soils,^[2] and is at an elevation of 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. The population is included in the civil parish of Lamarsh.^[3]

The village is a mile west of the River Stour, which forms the Essex-Suffolk county-border in the local area. The village has one parish church the CofE St Barnabas. It was built in the thirteenth century and went through restorations in the 16th and 19th centuries.^[4] In 1831 the population of the village was 244 inhabitants.^[5]

It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the nearest railway station at Bures on the Sudbury Branch Line. Its nearest significant road link is the A131.

References[]

^ "Parish cluster map". www.braintree.gov.uk. Archived from the original (JPG) on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 22 January 2007.
^ Kelly's Directory of Essex. 1933.
^ "Alphamstone Ordinace Survey".
^ "St Barnabas, Alphamstone, Essex". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland - Kings College London.
^ Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)

External links[]

Media related to Alphamstone at Wikimedia Commons
http://www.essexchurches.info - Alphamstone Church on Essex Churches website
GENUKI reference library on Alphamstone
Alphamstone in the Domesday Book

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[parishmap-1] "Parish cluster map". www.braintree.gov.uk. Archived from the original (JPG) on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 22 January 2007.

[2] Kelly's Directory of Essex. 1933.

[3] "Alphamstone Ordinace Survey".

[4] "St Barnabas, Alphamstone, Essex". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland - Kings College London.

[5] Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)

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Alphamstone
St. Barnabas church, Alphamstone
Alphamstone Location within Essex
Area	2.67 sq mi (6.9 km²)
OS grid reference	TL884358
Civil parish	Alphamstone
District	Braintree
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BURES
Postcode district	CO8
Dialling code	01787

Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England

UK Parliament	Saffron Walden
List of places UK England Essex 51°59′20″N 0°44′34″E / 51.9890°N 0.7428°E / 51.9890; 0.7428Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 0°44′34″E / 51.9890°N 0.7428°E / 51.9890; 0.7428